Keys to Nursing Success, Revised Edition - Softcover

Want to give pre nursing students a solid idea of what nursing is-as a profession-and what the major issues the profession faces today? Keys to Nursing Success is designed to promote a realistic understanding of nursing, explore the exceptional opportunities nursing careers offer, and help students prepare for the rigors of nursing school. This revision introduces a framework that has beenproven to improve student learning and achievement. Using the theory of Successful Intelligence, developed by psychologist Robert Sternberg, this book helps students prepare both academically and personally for applying to and succeeding in nursing school. Katz provides updated statistics on nursing salaries and demographics. No other book provides this information on nursing careers and helps students learn how to learn through study strategies.

This is the first Student Success text to use a framework that has been proven to improve student learning and achievement.   Keys to Nursing Success, Third Edition, helps students build analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills.  According to this theoretical premise, also known as Successful Intelligence , all three skill areas require development to be truly successful.

 

Katz provides updated statistics on nursing salaries and demo graphics, giving teachers all the latest information in one place.  No other book enables professors both to discuss nursing as a career and to help students learn how to learn through study strategies.

 

 

Features include:

• NEW Pedagogy – In-chapter and end-of-chapter exercises teach students to think analytically, creatively and practically.
• Chapter Opening Q and A – Real-life student questions provide professor response.
• Teamwork Exercise – Practical trials allow students to develop the skill of working with others.
• Career Portfolio Exercise – Practice session prepares students to demonstrate their skills via resumes and vitas.

Additional Support – in and out of the classroom...

 

Keys to Nursing Success offers instructors an Instructor’s Manual which provides PowerPoint slides, exercises, tests, and rationales that can be used immediately.  Additional discipline-specific information can be accessed through the Student Success Supersite (www.prenhall.com/success), where students and faculty will find an array of resources. 

 

Start strong. Finish stronger.

 

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